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  1. Re:Okay, so 5G isn't 5G on World's First 5G Field Trial Delivers Speeds of 3.6Gbps Using Sub-6GHz · · Score: 1

    G = Generation...not Ghz

  2. Given that self driving cars don't work in snow (let alone something as common and blinding as a good lake effect storm)...I don't see any effect on insurance at all, at least in the North East.

  3. Re:How gracefully does it fail? on Advance In Super/Ultra Capacitor Tech: High Voltage and High Capacity · · Score: 1

    If only there were a measurement for how powerful electricity really is.....( hint hint...its called Watts ) I remember the good ol' days of disposable cameras...taking a single AA battery to charge a 150V capacitor that was meant to power the flash. Instead, it powered my shock box...pretty good kick for being powered by a AA battery.

  4. No Humans? on The Air Traffic Control Tower of the Future Doesn't Include Humans · · Score: 1

    Remote Tower is not the same as "Doesn't Include Humans". The way Saab treats their Air Traffic business units, I wouldn't be surprised if this fell apart. They need to start investing in it instead if sucking it dry.

  5. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 2

    Anyone notice that Dad is a bit of a media celebrity already?

  6. Re:He won't last long on Nintendo Names Tatsumi Kimishima As New President · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yet you are going to vote for Hillary...

  7. Donate old computers on Ask Slashdot: Cheapest Functional Computer For Students? · · Score: 1

    Ask for donations. I personally have several old PCs stashed in the basement and if anyone ever asked for one, I'd be more than happy to unload one. Granted they might be a little on the slower side, but better than nothing.

  8. If all else fails... on Tools Coming To Def Con For Hacking RFID Access Doors · · Score: 1

    just break the window if you want in that badly.

  9. ugh! on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 1

    My MIL keeps telling us to put sliced onions around the house to ward off disease....

  10. Re:Five is plenty on Short Sleepers Might Be Benefiting From a DNA Mutation · · Score: 2

    ...says the guy with an espresso machine on his desk.

  11. Where's mine? on Time Warner Cable Owes $229,500 To Woman It Would Not Stop Calling · · Score: 1

    $1500 per call..I get 3 calls a day from spammers -n- scammers, wish I could get them to pay up.

  12. Re:Maths much? on 8 Yelp Reviewers Hit With $1.2 Million Defamation Suits · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, read the article. They are sure it is one person harassing them and they are confident they know who it is. The only way to prove it in court is by getting Yelp to turn over any information that can help them identify who it is.

  13. Why Brute Force PIN? on My United Airlines Website Hack Gets Snubbed · · Score: 1

    I'd be more concerned that you can use first name, last name and phone number. Your example takes 10000 PIN attempts with a given first and last name, where you could script it to go through a phone book and have legitimate combinations of the 3. The same goes for email. And on that note, the article just says success indicates if the account exists....I don't see anything about actually being able to reset your own password using this method.

  14. De javu on Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Feminist bullshit on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would feminist complain that this stuff is making men less masculine? That is contrary to the feminist agenda, they want wimpy men so they can control them, then complain how they aren't masculine, then become lesbians.

  16. Christian psychologist have been saying this for years...but no one listens because they are "Christians". Go listen to some archived podcasts of Focus On The Family, or Family Life Today on the subject.

  17. Re:be a basketball on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he meant Micheal Jordan

  18. Re:Evolution on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 2

    That's because scientists and/or journalist use Natural Selection and Evolution interchangeably, even though they are distinctly different. It makes it hard to trust these articles when they can't even use the right terms. This is a case of natural selection.

  19. Junk science on Collision With Earth's "Little Sister" Created the Moon · · Score: 1

    So the theory is that there were 2...they collided...and are still 2. They are made of similar stuff too, before and after. I'm sorry, how do we know they impacted again? Oh right...they are slightly different ages...we've mastered that whole dating thing back to 14 billion years. Wait, that doesn't mean they collided...hmmm I'm stumped.

  20. Re:It's genetics really... on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    Didn't you watch Trading Places? That movie totally debunks your hypothesis.

  21. Parentlessness on Poverty May Affect the Growth of Children's Brains · · Score: 1

    44% of single mother families are in poverty, who knows how many of those mothers are even around when working more than one job. If no one teaches them the basics, who will? Only 12% of families with both parents at home are in poverty, and in most cases, at least one parent is around (if they were both working 2 jobs, they wouldn't be in poverty). Sounds like the real problem is single mother families...one could argue this is a moral problem, stepping away from traditional families to the lifestyles we live now.

  22. Re:Obvious on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It doesn't even mention using StringBuffers or anything else that is designed to increase the performance of String concatenations, or even simply using a 1MB byte or char array. Not only did they fail in their programming, they failed to understand that the disk has its own memory, and their 1MB string is small enough to fit there before being physically stored on disk.

  23. Re:Pubic records on Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD · · Score: 1

    same with property owners. In fact many counties have that information available online free of charge.

  24. Uh, your facts are wrong on $56,000 Speeding Ticket Issued Under Finland's System of Fines Based On Income · · Score: 1

    The most reckless drivers are the ones that pay the most insurance premiums on average....which happens to be young men, who don't make squat. Driving fast or recklessly is not the same as a study on ethics...

  25. Re:Atlassian Jira on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Costs too much...lol. I had a group ask my to build a custom one for them, and I said JIRA would do this fine. They made me price out what I thought it would take for me to build one myself to fit their specific needs, and it ended up being about the same cost for me to slap it together as it would for a 100 person JIRA license.